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The way we were song3/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Redford likened filming to “doing overtime at Dachau”, says Santopietro. When filming began in Schenectady in upstate New York, Streisand was billeted in a grand Victorian rental home Redford and Pollack stayed in a modest Holiday Inn. Oscar-winning costume designer Dorothy Jeakins quit after creating most of Streisand’s 56 costumes, which the star approved, then rejected, then approved revised versions, then changed her mind again. Redford, unhappy that every shot was lit to make Streisand look her best at his expense, snubbed Laurents and didn’t speak to him again for ten years.Īs the film’s troubles spiralled, Streisand’s diva ways were in full flow. With the script in disarray and its stars miserable, Arthur Laurents was rehired to repair the damage. ![]() “Nobody had any faith in the picture,” confessed Pollack. The studio grew frantic as the film ran over budget with additional location shooting, and a string of 11 new scriptwriters trying to salvage the plot. And financially-strapped Columbia Pictures was unsure whether to even make a film that had been turned down by other studios.Ī Columbia executive berated Pollack: “You’re going to do a picture where Barbra plays a Jewish Communist and she doesn’t sing a note – are you trying to destroy this company?” Screenwriter Arthur Laurents, who had written the book for Broadway hits West Side Story and Gypsy, was fired after refusing to make script changes. Streisand may also have hoped for a real-life romance and Pollack confirmed: “She had a crush on him”. Streisand enjoyed top billing but Redford had the bigger salary: $1.2million to her $1million. But browbeaten by Pollack, who promised major rewrites, he finally gave in, admitting: “I just took the part on faith.” Redford considered his role of Hubbell “a weak, spineless male sex object”. Indeed, Redford branded the original screenplay a “piece of junk”.Īs the film’s long-suffering director Sydney Pollack recalled, Redford “didn’t like the script, he didn’t like the character, he didn’t like the concept of the film, he didn’t think the politics and love story would mix. He felt it was a Barbra Streisand vehicle and his character was just a ‘Ken Doll’, a pretty face with no substance.” ![]() “He turned it down repeatedly for eight straight months. “Robert Redford really didn’t want to make this film,” says Robert Hofler, whose own book, The Way They Were, is published on January 26. Pakula’s Holocaust drama Sophie’s Choice (1982), starring Meryl Streep the television remake of A Streetcar Named Desire (1984), with Ann-Margret the comedy blockbuster 3 Men and a Baby (1987) and the Barbra Streisand-directed romantic melodrama The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).Īccording to the IMDb, Marvin Hamlisch’s last composer credit was for Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! (2009), starring Matt Damon.They meet at university in 1937, reunite and fall in love in 1944, divorce in the 1950s amid the Communist Red Scare witch-hunts, and when they finally meet again in the 1960s are poignantly reminded of the way they were and the love they lost. Marvin Hamlisch moviesĪmong Hamlisch’s other credits as a composer – mostly in movies of the ’70s and ’80s – are the scores (and sometimes songs) for the following films: the Burt Lancaster vehicle The Swimmer (1968), Hamlisch’s first composer credit the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Alan J. Marvin Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers are reportedly the only Grammy, Emmy, Tony, Oscar, and Pulitzer winners to date. 2, began his Hollywood career by playing piano at Spiegel’s parties.īesides his three Oscars, Marvin Hamlisch won one Grammy ( The Way We Were score), three Emmys (including one for the 1994 special Barbra: The Concert), a Tony ( A Chorus Line, 1975), two Golden Globes (“The Way We Were” and “Life Is What You Make It” from the 1971 Walter Matthau drama Kotch), and a Pulitzer (also for A Chorus Line). You’ve done it for this year.” Hamlisch, who also thanked “the makers of Maalox” while accepting Oscar no. Upon accepting his third Oscar, Hamlisch told the crowd at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: “I think we can talk as friends. Hamlisch, who was 68, reportedly collapsed after “a brief illness.” Marvin Hamlisch awardsĭuring the course of his 45-year career, the New York-born (June 2, 1944) Hamlisch was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning three times – all at the same Oscar ceremony (1974): for composing the music for the song “The Way We Were,” which had lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman for the original score for The Way We Were and for composing the adapted score (from Scott Joplin’s original) for the year’s Best Picture winner The Sting. Best known for the Oscar-winning theme song from the 1973 Barbra Streisand- Robert Redford tearjerker The Way We Were, composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch died Monday, August 6, in Los Angeles.
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